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Resources for Teachers - Gender Representation

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    Advertising and Male Violence - Lesson
    To make students aware of the ways in which male violence is used and promoted in advertising.
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    Comic Book Characters - Lesson
    In this lesson, students look at how male and female characters are depicted in comic books.
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    Exposing Gender Stereotypes - Lesson
    culturally inherited stereotypes, and to the images presented in the media - film and television, rock music, newspapers and magazines.
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    Favourite Sports and Athletes: Introduction to Sports Media - Lesson
    This lesson develops a beginning awareness by students of how they feel towards, and respond to, different sports, and how the media represents athletics.
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    Female Action Heroes - Lesson
    In this lesson, students identify stereotypical images of girls and women as represented by female action heroes.
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    Gender and Tobacco - Lesson
    In this lesson, students explore gender-related influences on smoking.
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    Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising - Lesson
    In this lesson, students think critically about culturally inherited gender stereotypes, and explore how stereotypes about men nd women are promoted and reinforced through the images and messages in alcohol ads.
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    Gender Stereotypes and Body Image - Lesson
    These lessons are an adaptation of Grade 8 lessons from the Curriculum Healthy Relationships, by Men For Change, Halifax, Nova Scotia, a 53-activity, three-year curriculum designed for teens.
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    Girls and Boys on Television
    In this lesson, students discuss television programming aimed at children and how girls and boys are portrayed in it. Students illustrate what they dislike about portrayals of girls or boys and then create their own TV character who will counter the illustrated negative portrayals.
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    Learning Gender Stereotypes - Lesson
    This is the second of three lessons that address gender stereotypes. The objective of these lessons is to encourage students to develop their own critical intelligence with regard to culturally inherited stereotypes, and to the images presented in the media - film and television, rock music, newspapers and magazines.The lesson begins with a review of stereotypes that are associated with men and women and their possible sources - including the role of the media. Students deconstruct a series of advertisements based on gender representation and answer questions about gender stereotyping about articles they have read.

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